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1. ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 05:33:52 EDT ar.al🌻

   Cheat sheet:

   Open source: do anything you want with the source, including closing it off. (https://opensource.org/osd)

   Free software: you can’t close it off either; you must share alike. (https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software)

   Ethical technology: all of the above, and don’t make technology that violates human rights. (https://ind.ie/ethical-design)

   Open Source is open as in “open for business”, free software guarantees a healthy commons, and ethical technology builds on free software but excludes unethical uses.

   1. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 08:27:12 EDT Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

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      @aral If you check the list of Free Software licenses from the FSF you will notice that not only copyleft licenses are considered Free Software licenses. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Depending on what kind of software you want to write, the FSF even recommend the usage of non-copyleft licenses sometimes https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html